skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been a while, but I found it was best to assume all the text is ASCII, and fall back to a slower code path only if that turned out not to be the case.

A lot of tools that create JSON, XML, and so forth will escape any non ASCII characters by default. Python's json package, for example.
This headline does not make much sense. What the article describes is generative AI for molecular design. That’s a perfectly valid and useful thing to do, but it’s not drug design. Drugs are molecules that affect specific targets in human physiology and reduce disease. There’s a lot of work before molecular design that goes into finding the right target. Then a ton of work to make sure that the drug molecule affects the target in a way that actually reduces the disease. These are the hardest and most expensive parts of drug design. Further, they're not particularly amenable to just plugging a transformer into a huge dataset to do next token prediction. We don’t datasets at the scale of all text on the internet for cellular biology or for human clinical trials. There are certainly groups like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative trying to put together “atlases” that are very comprehensive datasets of RNA in lots of different types of cells, but they’re fundamentally limited by our measurement technology. Clinical trials will just never have that kind of data. It’s too expensive and too dangerous to try out a million different drugs.

Maybe I’m just too close to the problem and I’ll suffer the same fate as pre-deep-learning computer vision researchers. That said, I really think this is a domain where details like physics and biochemistry actually matter a great deal, and I’m suspicious of ML hype that claims we can just wave those away and that some AI will just figure out drugs.
Human intolerance?
The GP is spouting uninformed opinions and then patting themselves on the back for being an "outsider".

Why so hostile?

BTW I have nothing to gain from 'spouting uninformed opinions'.

My opinion is mostly based on my own interactions with certain academics, and others I've had the opportunity to directly observe.

Perhaps the patterns I've seen are not universal. But that doesn't mean that they are not common or, as you seem to suggest, do not exist at all.
Who started carbon credit trading? ENRON !
In my experience toml is worse at anything complex. It's nice as an .ini replacement but makes even yaml look sane in comparison if you want to use it for very complex or deeply nested stuff. But it wasn't designed to do that anyways
> It's of note that while there about 20% muslims in Israel, there's about zero jewish person in Gaza (there are some israelo-palestinian though) and zero jewish person in Iran. Or close to that.

Not only are there Jews in Iran, they even have a seat permanently reserved in the Iranian parliament.
There's a joke in here with the pokemon's name with how it doesn't match with its actual english name
Wait, impartial is the measure now?

The most-read newspaper in Israel, Israel Hayom, is owned by a friend of Bibi. Is it impartial? Should it be shut down?
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Creating a small group of bot 'personalities' that have an internal dialog, generating and sharing intermediate values before coming to a consensus and issuing a response to a user is trivial. I did it in my earliest experiments with GPT-3

You could use the same framework to generate an internal dialog for a bot.

A lot of people don't think before they speak. If you tell me you have a small conversation with yourself before each thing you say out loud during a conversation, I will have doubts. Quick wit and fast paced conversation do not leave time for any real internal narration, just "stream of consciousness".

There is a time for carefully choosing and reflecting on your words, surely, but there are many times staying in tune with a real time conversation takes precedence.
GM and Chrysler also went bankrupt the year after.

Silicon Valley Bank was actually the third largest bankruptcy in US history, which is news to me. And apparently Signature Bank was fourth.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096794/largest-bankrupt...
The short version is that the Linux ecosystem has for whatever reason spent a decade or so resolving the already-solved problem of "who is logged in to this TTY?" and came up with a new way to solve that that the BSDs don't in general implement and Wayland relies on.
Who Won the Pullman Strike? (Hint: Not Pullman)
I don't see how blocking contributions from people in Russia etc will help. Malicious actors can simply falsely claim to be American. Is GitHub going to start verifying citizenship? Even if GitHub did that, it likely wouldn't be too hard to fake.
There is still a question of whether that is the correct limit. Many people think it is. Obviously Israel disagrees. We can’t use the First Amendment and SCOTUS precedent to uncover aughts, especially to another country.

However, if you agree that Brandenburg set the correct limit, you can conditionalize aid on it. It’s just not a first principles approach.
If you write a book I will buy it.
I think most people would consider almost any other stack based UI framework that has no fear of stateful components, layout engines with constant solvers, and lets you control when and how to draw frames to be an improvement.

Imagine a world where you just had drawing and input handling primitives on the web. You wouldn't invent the DOM and then something like React to wrangle it that's for damn sure.
I don't think proper bollards are about making you follow the rules so much as reducing death when you are unable to follow the rules.
No. If there is strong incentive to compromise, and little to no chance a compromise is being found, it's statistically most likely to assume compromises happen on a regular basis and only rarely are found out.
The world emoji or just a grid-sphere symbol are the closest I've seen to hit the mark where flags aren't visible.

Same with the "cog" for settings. I always know where settings are even on my chinese co-worker's phone.
"Fractional scaling? Seat management? What is all this cruft? Let's start over from scratch and This Time We'll Get It Right!"
Well, coming back to my World Zionist Congress example – you might equally say that antisemites who accuse the WZC of "secretly controlling the world" are not "engaging with it at all, and simply borrowing the term (or more likely, organically reinventing it)". And yet, I don't think that makes sense. Antisemites make all kinds of unhinged, baseless accusations against Jewish people and their community organisations – and yet, that doesn't mean that when an antisemite says "Jew" they are talking about something completely unrelated to what non-antisemites mean by that word – if that were the case, they wouldn't (strictly speaking) be antisemites at all.

And, it is false that "cultural Marxism" the real world academic movement has "no relationship" with Breivik's concept of "cultural Marxism". In his manifesto, Breivik cites figures such as Antonio Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and György Lukács, who were foundational influences on that academic movement. So he is talking about the same thing. That doesn't mean his criticisms of it are sensible, nor do they in any way justify the unspeakable horror of his violence.

Imagine reading an antisemitic screed against the World Zionist Congress, which mentions its real founder and first President Theodor Herzl, and other key early figures such as Max Nordau, Abraham Salz and Samuel Pineles – but then baselessly accuses them of secretly controlling the world's governments. The baseless and irrational accusation doesn't change the identity of the targets of the accusation, it doesn't mean "the screed isn't actually attacking Theodor Herzl et al, rather it is attacking imaginary persons who by coincidence have the same names". In the same way, Breivik's claims about the academic cultural Marxist movement are ignorant and over-the-top, but that doesn't mean he isn't actually talking about them, and instead talking about something completely unrelated.
MF Global in 2011 as well, but not terribly big comparatively speaking.
Alcatel-Lucent didn't go bankrupt and out of business. They were acquired by Nokia and have had chunks spun off and sold to other companies.

Nortel is a good example though. That was a big one.
I wonder if "accurate enough" hr could be achieved through filtering accelerometer data? You'd have to be quite still, but if the device knows you're doing push-ups, and what range your heart-rate could be in, it may be able to filter out other movements.

Respiration can be measured with microphones, and again, movement, but I suspect this may be more challenging than filtering HR.
I once helped my advisor write a grant application and he put in some great outreach stuff in the DEI section of the app. What turns me cynical about DEI statements/sections is that after we won the grant, there was no money for that inclusion programming and nobody ever checked whether we'd really done it.
You've been ranting about this for about 9 years now.

bitwize on Aug 31, 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149015

> It's written against an obsolete windowing model for a deprecated window system.

bitwize on Jan 9, 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10869618

> Since X is now deprecated tech

And tons more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=3&prefix=true&que...

Maybe give it a rest and let others have their toys without flying off the handle with comments that say or contribute nothing.

And it's not even applicable here; there's literally a linked post about how Wayland is being worked on in this article's first sentence. But I guess the volunteers of NetBSD aren't working hard enough or something.
Providing political influence is the point of any state news agency, including "unobjectionable" ones like the BBC, among others. In a democratic country worthy of the name they're allowed to operate regardless. I'd like to see some citation for the claim that Al Jazeera was serving as some sort of pro-violence propaganda stream; CNN showed some speeches from bin Laden after 9/11 but that doesn't make them al Qaeda propaganda.
Given how expensive that would be (it would be a staggering amount of data!), I doubt anything would allow for that. However, what you might be able to do is use the values that you read from one MSFS/XPlane session and then use the APIs available to replicate the same flight and flight properties in another, separate instance of MSFS/XPlane (on another computer, for example), and then capture its HDMI/DP-out
Safer for who?

> It's a symptom of american culture being highly individualistic and selfish.

Your comment is a bit on the nose.
Simple is robust.
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Don't know if I could pick a superlative example from that blog, but the post about telling someone to put their iron in the car so they can stop worrying about it being left on really stuck with me.

Great blogger, and I've only read a handful of what he's written. Most of it not lifechanging, but entertaining. e.g. silicon valley house party posts.
How To Be Alone by Tanya Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
You can't sue someone for calling for violence, including racially motivated violence. Incitement is a crime, but incitement happens when you direct someone to take a specific action and they do exactly what you said (e.g., you tell them to go beat someone and they do it).
You want us to acknowledge whether we're on the traditional tribal lands of Dan, Binyamin, Menasseh, Yehudah, etc?
These weren't fatal to the project or team, but did contribute extra work for net negative value (slower & more maintenance, with no relevant extra features):

- Using Kubernetes to host an application when Docker Compose would do (specialist application with <10 concurrent users).

- Using DynamoDB to store a few kB of temporary data in a processing pipeline, despite having several existing PostgreSQL instances already and no DynamoDB ones.
Plenty of single-purpose 32-bit ARM systems are around.
Red Hat wants it to be really hard to remain compatible with Mainstream Linux (whatever Red Hat does) while also differentiating your distro from theirs in meaningful ways, and wants some good old “fire and motion” against competitor distros.

At least, I think everything they’ve been up to and these projects they heavily influence have been doing makes a ton more sense if that’s the plan. It’s that or a lot of weirdly-hostile and disorganized stuff has been happening by chance in a way that achieves that effect by accident.

The BSDs are just collateral damage, I reckon.
> You can not. Inciting violence and calls for criminal action is a well establish limit of the First Amendment, but that is not what they are doing from what I gathered in this thread.

Saying "ethnic group XXX should be exterminated" does not meet the standard for incitement. I don't know why the debate has become about US law but I'm even more puzzled about so many people confidently stating, wrongly, that the US bans hate speech. The US has frequently been criticized by Europeans for this exact reason -- in their view, the US stance permitting hate speech is irresponsible.
nah pretty sure temporal anomaly
I hope not, toml is even worse at complex things and just slightly better at the stuff that isn't confusing.
Add a k:v to a mildly complex dict.

At this point, I'm pushing into a place where I'm just going to switch to go because its getting to be a mess.
I worked on one. Cellphone routers deployed in remote locations, yes including handling 911 calls. They'll probably all crash at the rollover and require a technician to come and upgrade the firmware on site.
Remember that Llama400B is still in training and could end up crushing a lot of the use cases for GPT-4
It's the same thing with every technology for me. C++ is pretty absurd, same with Java/Spring framework, ditto for Linux and the whole TTY system/file descriptor hell. Anywhere where someone spends their whole life is probably going to be a big mess.
"failure of peace process" is quite the spin.

In 2005, the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza meant the IDF leaving and taking all Jews from the area with them. That's about as pro-peace as you can get. Israel saying in essence "Here you go, Palestinians. Take all of Gaza in peace. No strings attached. We will supply you with water and electricity too!"

Gazans elected Hamas and then fired so many rockets at Israelis that they had to invent a new technology to protect themselves. Gazans dug tunnels under the border with Israel for no other purpose than to kill Israelis.

Yeah, like most humans, we Westerners have experience of hate, but no, Westerners do not have living experience of that level of hate. Well, Jews do.
it would be also equally cheap to just narrow the roads, plant street trees, etc. that slow down cars without necessarily having bollards everywhere

at least in the US, the root issue is the same, that society has prioritized the fast movement of cars, and ever bigger cars, and so we're reaping what we sow.
Obviously that’s what they would say. The whole point of this discussion is that people tend to say things that advance their agenda, or are politically expedient, not because they are the unvarnished truth.
There are multiple eras here.

MS missed the tpc/ip train completely and ended up just copy pasting the stack from one of the BSDs in Windows 95 I think, or it wasn't a default install, I forget which.

They were late to the http train and had to give away explorer for free. You can tell how desperate they were since they didn't do the same thing with office.

Then between 1999 and 2012 they completely dominated.

Then they missed the mobile train completely and lost the browser wars. And here we are.

I blame IE being free for the state of the internet we have today. If people were trained to pay for it then we wouldn't have spyvertisment as the only model for it.
Just seeing loading spinner…not obvious what I should be doing
> We need to hire academic staff who can leverage their own personal, intellectual and cultural background to help us become a "bigger tent",

I think there are contradictory imperatives here. You ultimately can't become a bigger tent across demographics while also shrinking your tent in terms of admissions selectivity. At some point, if people really mean it about serving a larger public, you just have to make yourselves into a less selective institution.
Because it's not just equivocation. Read more of the actual original definition/usage of motte-and-bailey.

Motte-and-bailey isn't just an argumentative form, it's also a political strategy. It's people pushing/doing controversial thing A but every time they get called on it they bring up uncontroversial thing B. Or, they even retreat to thing B, but then when the pressure is off they come back out and start pushing/doing thing A again.

"Equivocation" covers a wide variety of situations, but motte-and-bailey is more specific and includes the notions of a strategy executed over time which includes action.
It wasn't flagged for being critical of Altman, though. There are long, critical discussions of Altman here all the time. It was flagged because Gary Marcus is fast descending into provocateur-ish nutterdom and the article is, quite simply, poorly constructed rage bait.

About your own two downvoted posts: They probably aren't downvoted for the reasons you think! Your opinions are pretty widely shared here. A lot of people agree with you about the copyright issue, about the farcical non-openness of OpenAI, and about the environmental stakes. It's the other bits (insults, complaints about moderation) we can do without.
I was responding to this person’s more precise comment with shorthand. But yes, specifically Europeans invented transporting Africans from Sub-Saharan Africa to plantations in the Americas to do labor intensive harvesting of sugar, tobacco, and cotton.

His point was that Americans didn’t uniquely invent that institution, not that there was no slavery outside of Europe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270344
Austin from the referenced post here - always love to see the shoutout! What you did is pretty much what I wanted to do when I set out. But definitely not in JS haha, not a huge fan of it

Anyways, I chose to go with PID control for my control systems, which worked really well right "out of the box" with some somewhat generic values for P, I, and D.

I read/skimmed all the way through your post. It looks like your control system is more or less a P & D controller? Any reason you didn't just go with PID loops? Is this part of needing things to be stateless to work for JS (I am no JS expert, just saw a few mentions of that in the conclusion)?
Investor optimism, peer pressure, and FOMO play roles.
>> not at all the whole story of finance flows

> From what I can tell you think ...

no complete theory is presented by me! responding to snippets only.. systems thinking is called for, and also effects on individuals, actions by individuals.. the individual point of view explanation is certainly not sufficient nor complete
This seems like a will-have-bad-consequences line of thought. If pedestrian/car interactions are unacceptable then the obvious engineering solution is to ban pedestrians and design for cars only.

And it isn't as reasonable as it seems to hold the designer liable for statistically inevitable deaths. Everyone dies. Statistically, someone will die in your shop, car park or whatever sooner or later. At some point engineers are allowed to say "this is rare enough" and accept a certain level of collateral damage in their designs - if society can't accept this then it can't have engineered designs for a bunch of things. The costs would be impossibly high and we'd probably have to do away with driving as a mode of transport; it is too risky. It is statistically inevitable that someone will kill themselves on the bollards.
> three JS projects were targeted in failed attempts.

Suspected to be targetted, in a way that seems to have 0% chance of succeeding for almost any project. Which is why nothing happened.
Maybe "attitude is a choice" when learned as an adult is a relief, but when learned as a child is oppressive.
That's why Dunedin is the best city in NZ
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The more projects they target the more risk of being flagged and preventive measures to be engaged by counter intelligence etc.
I can't begin to state how much of a tinfoil hat theory this is. The issues with the leadership were persistent since years. Just read the recent thread about it here people.

I want to say that, just like that nixpkgs maintainer with 18.000 commits, as a non-US citizen I'd also not contribute to NixOS/nixpkgs. I in no way would support the MIC of a genocidal state.
And that's fair, to an extent, but the author seems to have a vendetta or total lack of empathy towards motorists.

You can't just ignore the consequences of vehicles hitting bollards, you have to weigh the likelihood of cars hitting them and the severity of those incidents against the likelihood of cars going past where the bollards would be and the severity of that scenario both when there are or aren't pedestrians that could be struck.

I'm not saying the status quo is correct, but I am saying that the author's tone does not strike confidence that they are approaching this from an objective and rational viewpoint that accounts for all the factors, at least in the case of bollards in locations where there's a good chance of high speed collisions with them.
I think favorable treatment for direct descendants of slaves is a much more defensible position, than favorable treatment based on “race”, which is difficult to even define.
Melbourne is much nicer than Sydney. Sydney's just another generic big city
It's a new one? I guess you are not the target audience of this Windows manager if you are not willing to give it a try and explore the features and the experience before rationalizing it's usefulness
Hi musical.
Thanks for your kind words.
Until now, sVB runs only on window, but it is open source, and anyone can fork it and create other versions to run on other systems and mobile.
https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
you've contradicted yourself, that's all the parent was saying, that comparing your demographics with national demographics is used to identify the degree to which your organization needs to institute race quotas
and if you allow foreign agents to incite for ethnic murder and the destruction and on your country on local cable TV? you think this ends well?
Where are the details?
> I myself tend to avoid invoking the word, because I find it derails discussions from whatever the substantive topic was, into debating what that word means and the appropriateness of using it.

This is the point I was trying to make.
the post is talking about the US, where the roads are absolutely massive and dangerous because they are built to Interstate standards and then posted for 40MPH and have left turns everywhere.

the road diet is pretty common in the US where roads are extremely wide and plagued by speeding, and where the local political will allows realigning priorities towards safety. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet